I want to reach 105 or so, and still be healthy. I never really went to doctors, and so, never had to take medicine. Never missed a day of school other than for non-public religious holidays, never missed a day of work for illness. I wouldn't want to die at 60 - I'm almost there now, and 6 years goes by like a weekend at this age. My father lived to 94, and was still driving, working, and working out in a gym, and managing his fast-food restaurant 3-4 days a week and playing golf the other 3-4 until within 6 months of his passing. His mind was intact, and his memory was better than mine is now. His mother was 97. Fully healthy, and mind intact, she stopped eating and decided times had passed her by. The World was too weird for her. She was walking 3 miles a day, and had nothing wrong physically [[never in a hospital-had her 4 kids at home). My father had nothing wrong. He just went to sleep one night and didn't wake up the next morning. Probably if he hadn't given up his car, and then couldn't get to work, so sold his restaurant, he might even be living today.
My landlady of 36 years [[in Munich) lived to 105 with her mind intact to 104+, and also physically fit all but her last 6 months. She owned the top floor of a residential "townhouse building", which had 6 floors [[12 flights of stairs). She walked up and down those stairs several times every day [[which made her legs strong and sure). There was an elevator, but it is painfully slow. She never took it. She also walked in The Englisher Garten [[largest city park in Europe) for an hour every day. She still drove her car until within 3 months of her 100th birthday. She still drove through terrible auto traffic in central Munich [[city of 3 million people), and drove regularly all the way to her daughter's house high in The Alps near the border with Switzerland. Even at 99, she always [[except in winter) stopped, on the way, to swim in a creek. At 92 years old, she started taking a class to learn English language. By 95, she was almost fluent in it. She didn't speak a word of English when I met her when she was 70. She spoke German, Norwegian, Danish, and French. She was an associate board member of a museum for the artwork of her husband's father, and also on a board of an association of churches all of which her architect husband had designed. She was active in those groups till age 102 or so.
I am still working as a story-writer artist for comic books and animation, and writing a comedy sci-fi book series, and teaching seminars in storyboarding in public libraries. I'll be able to continue doing those things until my mind is shot, and my body falls apart. Those 2 things might not happen. I had a friend and colleague, who lived to within 3 months of his hundredth birthday, who worked on his artwork until within 4 months of his passing. He had never been anywhere but USA and Canada [[lived in both) until age 94, when he did a 3-month tour of European appearances for his hundreds of thousands of fans there [[he was a cultural icon there-much bigger celebrity than in his own USA). That 3+ month tour at 94 would have exhausted most 50 year-olds.
I have a LOT more things I want to do. So, I want to remain healthy and live 20-25 more years.
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